Golden Pink Building

Only then did Qingqiu realize that his face was already wet, he hurriedly wiped his face with a silk cloth, and said in a concealed manner: "Nothing suddenly feels that this place is very familiar. I feel sad for some reason."

"This house was built by the previous generation. The old roots of our family are not in Yangzhou City, but in the Zhuangzi outside Yangzhou City. Yangzhou has been a place where wealthy businessmen have gathered since ancient times, and the salt industry prospered. Unfortunately, in the late period of the former dynasty, salt The business has declined, and those salt merchants have gradually declined. This house is said to be half of the house of the most famous salt merchant in Yangzhou, and it used to be the back house of the salt government office. It was a long time ago. It has been verified, but the garden and courtyard inside are indeed exquisite and not uncommon." Mrs. Bai told her daughter-in-law about the history of the house.Qingqiu controlled her emotions, and said apologetically, "I'm really ignorant, why are you crying?"

"When you talked about the front door, you suddenly felt a familiar feeling in your heart, that is, God destined you to be a member of our family. We are going to live here for a few days. You have plenty of time to stroll here. Yi is unfamiliar with this place, I remember that Shao Yi was still a few children when we left. It seems that he has just been enlightened not long ago." Mrs. Bai said that the door opened, and the servants of the Bai family had heard the news and were busy Come out to meet.

The population of the Bai family is really not prosperous. This house was purchased by Bai Wenxin's father. He was originally a silk merchant.After a few years in the Hanlin Academy, he couldn't get a real shortage, and he refused to take money to move around.He simply followed Ding You's excuse and went home. At that time, Shanghai had long been opened as a port, and Changzhou and Suzhou also prospered with commerce. He started the silk and tea business, and exchanged these things for foreign things such as foreign cloth, soap, caustic soda, etc. .After coming and going, the family business was prosperous, and he didn't want to struggle for qualifications in the officialdom. The family became prosperous, and he still didn't forget the tradition of studying, so Bai Wenxin and Bai Xiongqi's father was still born in the imperial examination.

The old man of the Bai family decided to move to Yangzhou City to live in Yangzhou City to celebrate the Double Happiness after giving birth to his youngest son.It just so happened that this house was for sale. He looked at the house and felt that the location of this house is good and spacious. In the future, his two sons will be able to live there when they get married and start a business. The most rare thing is that the courtyard and houses of this house are full of elegance. Shang's mansion is only for showing off its wealth, vulgar and loud, and gaudy.Therefore, the old man of the Bai family didn't talk much about the price, and directly spent tens of thousands of silver to buy this house, and after some renovations, he settled his home in Yangzhou City.

Qingqiu followed the crowd and walked slowly. After all, the sea has changed, and many places have changed.The house of the Bai family is now shared by Bai Wenxin and Bai Xiongqi, uncle and nephew. Mrs. Bai pointed to a carved door and said: "The house on the east side belongs to the Xiuzhu family, and our family is on the west side. Although it is regarded as a separate family, you know Yes, our two families are all outside, not completely separated. We still come in and out through the same gate, and we are considered a family. The garden behind is also not separated. You and Shao Yi live in his former yard, which is very quiet. It’s the best place.”

Bai Wenxin and his nephew's family are very close, and they are all people who have made a name for themselves, so naturally they will not be petty to care about a house that has been passed down from their ancestors, and use a wall to separate the two families.Because there are few people in the Bai family, Bai Wenxin has been outside for many years, and this house is watched by a few old family members.Fortunately, they are often repairing. Bai Wenxin and his group came back suddenly, and they were all five. The furniture in the house was ready and ready, and they could live in it immediately with a little cleaning.

Lao Jin, who was in charge of the house, came in personally with four cups of tea in a tea tray. Seeing Lao Jin, Bai Wenxin laughed jokingly and said, "You old man, you were like this when I left Yangzhou. It has been more than 20 years in a blink of an eye. , why are you still the same? Could it be that you stole the elixir of the Supreme Lord? You just ask someone to serve the tea, and you serve it yourself. I dare not drink the tea you brought! You serve it like this I was surprised when the plate came in, and I thought I was going to someone else’s house as a guest.” Lao Jin also smiled, but he still insisted on handing Bai Wenxin a cup of tea himself: “The master only made fun of me, you are poor Me, look at me getting old. How can I just climb the pole and forget my identity. These years, I have lived a good life, guarding a big house, not lacking in food and drink, sweeping the yard every day, what is it called? Things. I think the old man is thousands of miles away. If the old man sees that the house is lively today, he will be happy." Said Lao Jin serving tea to Mrs. Bai.

Bai Shaoyi saw that Lao Jin wanted to serve tea for herself, so she stood up and took it herself: "I dare not ask you to serve me tea. I remember when I was a child, I asked you to pick up a kite hanging on a tree branch. I was beaten up when my mother heard me calling my name. Uncle Jin followed my grandfather, and you didn’t have me when you were in Bai’s house. "

Lao Jin looked at Bai Shaoyi up and down, couldn't help but took his hand and said to Bai Wenxin: "I didn't expect that the young master has grown up. Why do I only think that the young master is still so tall? A child who runs around the yard becomes a child in a blink of an eye. I am now an adult. The young master and the old man are really carved out of the same mold. I heard that the young master studied in some university abroad. Now there is no imperial examination, and the college students are from a juren. Now it is good to be a foreigner. It is also necessary to come back from a foreign university. It's Tanhua."

Listening to Lao Jin's words and seeing his serious expression, everyone couldn't help but smile. "This is my daughter-in-law. This Lao Jin is an old man in the family. He was with his great-grandfather, and he has been working with his grandfather since then." Bai Shaoyi watched Lao Jin quietly look at Qingqiu since he came in, and smiled and explained Lao Jin's background. Talked to her.

Qingqiu saw the scene where Lao Jin got along with the Bai family just now, and knew that this person must be a decent old family member of the Bai family. She stood up humbly and greeted him with a secret love smile.

"Oh, I don't dare to do it. How dare I ask the young mistress to say hello to me as a crude laborer!" After all, Lao Jin was old, and he stood in front of Qingqiu and squinted his eyes to carefully look at the young mistress.As soon as Bai Wenxin's family came in, some people told Lao Jin that the young mistress looked like a fairy, and she was more beautiful than the people in the paintings.Now Lao Jin can carefully look at this young lady who everyone talks about. He stared at Qingqiu carefully for a while, and suddenly his face changed, and he muttered to himself: "Why do they look the same? Could it be that I really Did you meet a fairy?"

Bai Shaoyi didn't hear Lao Jin's words, and thought that Lao Jin was old and confused: "The college student you are talking about is Juren, Uncle Jin, you don't know, my wife is a college student, if you want to write letters to your family from now on, ask Qingqiu to help you. "While speaking, Bai Shaoyi gave Qingqiu a comforting look, which meant that Lao Jin was old, so don't care what he said.

Listening to Bai Shaoyi's words, Lao Jin was even more surprised. He stared hard at Qingqiu, and his expression became serious: "This is the good deeds of our ancestors. The young master married a fairy-like wife. I lived in the backyard a few years ago. Seeing this woman, I still think about whose family's girl is so beautiful, if anyone can marry her, it will be a blessing to the ancestors. Who knows that the dream came true, it turned out that the young master married a fairy."

Bai Shaoyi thought to herself that this old Jin is over 70 this year, maybe he is a fool, talking nonsense in front of Qingqiu, Mrs. Bai also thought that Lao Jin was getting old, and she was happy to see Shao Yi marrying a wife, and wanted to say something festive, In the end, she said something nondescript. Seeing that there was no sullen look on Qingqiu's face, she admired Qingqiu's good self-cultivation: "You are getting old, and if you have anything to do, ask the subordinates to do it. Go down and rest for a while, over there in the countryside Are you all ready?"

Speaking of saying that Mrs. Bai paid out the old gold, she turned to Qingqiu and said: "He is a countryman with a single mind, don't be as knowledgeable as him."

Qingqiu didn't take it seriously when he heard Lao Jin's words, he smiled and said to Mrs. Bai: "He has a good heart, I heard Shaoyi say that he is an old man in the family, although he is just a servant, but we as juniors can't be arrogant , shouting and drinking at the old man."

"Qingqiu is really a sensible child. Many young people nowadays are not sensible, and they are all very arrogant. Okay, everyone is tired all the way, let's rest. The scenery in Yangzhou is good, and I will call Shaoyi to take it with me tomorrow. Let me go out for a walk." Mrs. Bai admired Qingqiu's humility and politeness, and told everyone to go to rest.

Bai Shaoyi pointed: "Over there is the small living room for meeting guests. It used to be the place where grandfather met people and talked. The big living room just now is only used when there are many people during the Chinese New Year. Entering through this small door is for mother and father. The place is a small building, and my mother likes to sit under the upper window. Our house is in the garden." As they spoke, they walked through a long narrow passage and passed a small cloud-shaped doorway, and their eyes suddenly opened up.An exquisite corridor in the backyard surrounds a pool of clear water. Although no one has lived in it for many years, the garden is surrounded by green water. Bai Shaoyi dragged Qingqiu up a folding bridge, and as Qingqiu walked away, his heart was secretly surging. With a warm current.It's like a wanderer who has been away for a long time and returns to his hometown again.

She only felt that the path in front of her was familiar, and she couldn't help speeding up her pace.Bai Shaoyi followed behind Qingqiu, and immediately hit the Butterfly Hall in Linshui. Behind the Butterfly Hall in Sanjian Xiaoqiao was a small courtyard. Except that the windows had been replaced with glass, everything else was the same. It was the same in Qingqiu's memory. "You didn't expect it, I lived here before. At the time, my mother was worried that I would fall into the water when I was mischievous, and didn't let me live in it. She also said that this house is so exquisite that it is for girls. Yes, I cried and refused, because I was beaten up because of the quarrel. In the end, my mother still couldn't wring it out and I agreed." Bai Shaoyi thought of all the things in her childhood that were very funny, "I don't know what I thought at the time, There are so many places where you only need to live here.”

Qingqiu didn't know whether it was sadness or joy in her heart. This place was also her former house. Lin Ruhai and Jia Min loved their only daughter very much. The back yard was exquisite and small, and the front was facing the water. The basement of the bar pool is made of hard ground with pebbles, the water is also very shallow, and the rails are higher than other places.If it is said that Daiyu's deep sorrow was preserved in the Grand View Garden, the Yangzhou mansion preserved the happiest days.

"You know how to choose a place. This is the best place. It hasn't changed much after all these years." Qingqiu said something in a low voice, and walked towards the back. "Wait for me, why do I feel that you are the owner of this place? I have been away from home for a long time, and I forgot that the door opened to that side."

When Qingqiu was lamenting that things were right and people were wrong, Lao Jin was muttering alone at a loss.The concierge is busy with you, because the master came back, the house that had been empty for a long time seemed to wake up from a deep sleep, and it began to gain popularity. Lao Jin sat on a bamboo chair and muttered to himself: "I really saw a fairy, Let me tell you that you just said that I passed out because of my old age."

"Grandpa Jin, what are you talking about? I think you have listened too much to Mr. Storyteller's Liao Zhai, and you really saw fairies there. Although the young mistress looks very talkative, but you arrange her behind the scenes and let her know, but you will cause trouble. Yes." A Bing, the gatekeeper, didn't take Lao Jin's abnormality seriously.

"What do you know? I didn't pass out. I remember it very clearly. In the spring of that year, just after the Huachao Festival, it was raining continuously. I was worried that the gate on the pool at the back was opened too much, and the inside The red carp ran out while the water was rising and went out to see it with a lantern. Guess what I saw? A girl was crying sadly by the pool. I thought I was wrong and rubbed my eyes vigorously. That girl Sitting there was absolutely true, I was taken aback in my heart, thinking that if the house has been unoccupied for a long time, something would come in. I think people say that ghosts have no shadows, so I held my breath and looked into the water. The girl's shadow was reflected on the water. I felt a little relieved, and dared to say, what are you doing here alone? Whose family are you from? How did you come here? The girl said this is her home, just looking for I don’t feel sorry for my family. At that time, I didn’t feel afraid anymore. I just thought that this girl was beautiful, and she spoke politely. At first glance, she was a girl from a good family. I just liked it from the bottom of my heart. I casually said that you will find a home. You are a kind-hearted girl, and you look like a fairy. Who wouldn't like you. That girl listened to me and looked far away. He muttered something in a low voice, sighed and didn't speak." Lao Jin was lost in thought, his cloudy eyes looked far away.

"Grandpa Jin can make up stories. How can you be sure that the girl you saw was the same as the young mistress? You are old and dim-sighted, can you still see clearly at night? You may not be able to see clearly what the young mistress looks like now, right? The reporter said that although the young lady’s hometown is here, but she grew up in Beijing, how could a foreign student come here?” What A Bing likes most is to quarrel with Lao Jin.

"You saw it with your own eyes. Even though they don't look the same, they all have the same personality. The tone and demeanor of the young mistress and I are clearly the same as that girl. Unfortunately, my lantern was blown out by the wind later. Waiting The lantern was lit again, and the girl was nowhere to be found. But since then, the vegetation in the garden has been particularly good. The hibiscus flowers by the pond used to be always sick. I also thought that it would not work, so I pulled it out and replanted it. It’s just that some people said that the hibiscus plants have been hundreds of years old, and it’s a pity to pull them out, but since that girl appeared, they have bloomed very lushly in the past few years.” Lao Jin I firmly believe that the girl is the young mistress of their family.

The days in Yangzhou are very pleasant. Bai Shaoyi took Qingqiu to visit the beautiful scenery of Yangzhou. It is already late autumn. Bai Shaoyi and Qingqiu took their children to take a boat trip to the Slender West Lake. Yuan Yuan was more interested in the delicate snacks on the boat than outsiders The scenery is more interesting.Qingqiu told Osmanthus: "Take the little glutton to eat well inside, the outside is full of water, don't tell her to run wild." Osmanthus hurriedly agreed, Yuan Yuan is a cute little girl, although She is narrow-minded, articulate, and has her own ideas. She is the so-called villain, but she will not lose her temper casually. As long as you reason with her, as long as you move her, everything will be easy to handle.Osmanthus coaxed the child to eat happily, and she brought Qingqiu's shawl over: "Young Mistress, the scenery outside is good, but the lake is windy, you can come back as soon as you stand."

Qingqiu put on a shawl and said silently: "I'll save it naturally." Then he went out full of worries, and just after leaving the cabin, the breeze on the lake brought the fragrance of late osmanthus, Qingqiu suddenly remembered that the favorite of Lin Ruhai and Jia Min's couple in the past was After the Mid-Autumn Festival, I took my daughter out to the lake to enjoy the scenery. The family was happy and harmonious. Lin Ruhai and Jia Min recited poems in harmony. Daiyu was surrounded by a group of maids and servants. She watched her parents sing together. The two laughed constantly, and Jia Min would hold Daiyu and point to the scenery everywhere, telling their allusions.Lin Ruhai will take the poetry collections of famous writers and choose easy-to-understand poems to teach her daughter to compose.

She is also a daughter who is loved by her parents like a jewel in the palm of her hand. Who knows that her fate is too bad, but she has become a helpless orphan. She wanted to grow up under the protection of her grandmother, but she met Baoyu.I mistakenly thought that I had found a lover who I could rely on for life, but I fell into a dangerous situation where wind, knife, frost and sword were threatening each other.I didn't expect that she could come back here with another identity and live in the previous house.It's just that things are different and people are different. In a blink of an eye, the sea has changed. After all, she will never be able to return to the days of Miss Lin Tanhua's family.

"You've always been a little depressed these days. My father finally came back. Many relatives have come, and there are many things in my hometown. They have something to be busy with. We can come out to have fun. You want to go out with your parents , Now we definitely can't be so casual. Tonight, we will treat guests to eat crabs, and you will know at that time." Bai Shaoyi put her arms around Qingqiu from behind, and restlessly put her chin on her shoulder.

Qingqiu couldn't confide in Bai Shaoyi, because her experience was too unimaginable and ridiculous. "I see. It must be Lao Jin who dared to use you to make up stories. Don't be angry with him. I have already told him quietly. If your old man goes around saying that my daughter-in-law is a fairy or something, she will be angry. Run back to the sky, go find her and come back. Lao Jin will never say anything again. He listened too much to storytelling, and thought he was a fairy in the garden. In fact, you should think that this means that you are good-looking Ah, not only is he good-looking, but he also has a good temperament, like a fairy." Regarding Lao Jin's stubbornness, Mrs. Bai and her son could not be too unsympathetic to Lao Jin, and directly reprimanded him severely.After all, it is the old family. The old man of the Bai family said before his death that he should not treat him harshly if he wants to provide pensions for the elderly.Bai Shaoyi personally went to the concierge to chat with Lao Jin in person, making sure that he would never tell anyone about his adventures again.

"I'm not angry about this, it's just that I really feel like I'm finally going home." Qingqiu leaned on Bai Shaoyi's body, although she couldn't go back to the past, but the days in front of her are worth cherishing.Didn't she already make up for what she didn't get in the last life?Mrs. Leng naturally loves her very much, the most rare thing is that her in-laws treat her well, and Bai Shaoyi treats each other sincerely. It would be too stingy for her to be sad for no reason.Thinking of this, the melancholy in Qingqiu's heart is relieved.

"Indeed, why do I feel that you know more about the history of Yangzhou than I do, as if you have really been to Yangzhou, I remember that you were born and raised in Beijing, you have never been to Yangzhou at all. But people say that it's not that the whole family doesn't come into the house, you will naturally feel familiar with Yangzhou because you are my wife." Bai Shaoyi expressed her point of view in a very serious tone.

Qingqiu turned around and looked at her husband affectionately. She swept away the sadness in her heart, smiled at the corners of her mouth, and the corners of her eyes and brows were filled with warmth. Suddenly, a child's voice came: "Shame, dad is going to kiss mom!" Bai Shaoyi and Qingqiu turned around in embarrassment, and saw Osmanthus hugging Yuan Yuan helplessly. Parents, no one can stop you.The little girl covered her face with her fat paws, and looked intently at her parents with her eyes behind her fingers.

Bai Shaoyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he stepped forward and carried his daughter around viciously, and pretended to throw her into the water viciously, which made the little girl giggle excitedly.Qingqiu was worried about the strong wind on the lake, so he simply went to the shore to play.

The family walked away to appreciate the autumn scenery in the south of the Yangtze River. Yuan Yuan was very interested in the flocks of wild geese passing by in the sky. Bai Shaoyi carried her daughter and walked up the mountain. Go up and down slowly.Only one person can pass through the narrow mountain road.Suddenly there was the sound of hurried footsteps from behind, and a person dressed as a peasant woman ran over in a panic and almost ran into Qingqiu head-on.

"I'm sorry madam, someone in my family has a sudden illness, and I'm in a hurry to call for a doctor." The village woman hurried on her way while apologizing.Bai Shaoyi helped his wife to confirm that she was fine, while Qingqiu shook his head: "It's nothing, the road is narrow and you should be careful."

The village woman didn't expect that although Qingqiu was dressed like a wife from a rich family, she was so eloquent that she didn't scold herself, she muttered: "My wife is really a good person, I'm really unlucky, I thought that woman would stay at my house for a few days. Who knew she was sick! If something really happened to her alone, I wouldn't be able to wash it off even if I jumped into the Yellow River. How could a female student in the city escape to the countryside." She muttered and left.

Qingqiu listened to the village woman's words, and suddenly stopped the person in his heart and asked: "Who is the person who lives in your house, but a female student from the city?"

It was really Zhao Yiping lying in the shabby house. She was originally thin and had never experienced hardship since she was a child. She could bear the wind on the deck and the days of being frightened.She struggled to get off the boat and fell ill not long after.Ouyang Yujian didn't know anything about caregivers. Fortunately, the landlord where she lived was a widow and took care of her for a few days.Zhao Yiping barely recovered, but unfortunately Shanghai is not safe, Beijing has issued a warrant to arrest her, and the landlord's hometown is here, so Zhao Yiping had to seek refuge in the countryside.

This village woman is a distant relative of the landlord in Shanghai, and she originally thought that she could earn some rent money.Unexpectedly, Zhao Yiping had a bumpy journey and fell ill as soon as she arrived in the countryside.Bai Shaoyi looked at Zhao Yiping, who was lying on the simple bamboo bed and was already unconscious, and said worriedly: "This looks really sick, let's send it to the city to have a look."